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Question about '&' usage in If statements - Celson - 30.01.2017

I was going through an old script and I've used '&' within an If statement. I don't remember what this actually represents. I understand that '&&' is used to check if multiple statements are true, but I don't get what '&' does.

The line of code in particular is this:

Also how does this differ from:

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Re: Question about '&' usage in If statements - jamesbond007 - 30.01.2017

here is some info on bitwise operators

https://sampwiki.blast.hk/wiki/OnPlayerK...ge#Explanation

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Re: Question about '&' usage in If statements - SyS - 30.01.2017

That is Bitwise AND (consider it as multiplication of binary number) if one of the input is 0 the output is 0 otherwise 1. It mainly used for combination of hardware events and computing combination of two inputs.

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